Danger UXB(1979)
Drama
First Air Date: 1979-01-08
Average Runtime: 50m
Rating: 8.0
Votes: 8
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 13
Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.
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Series 1
Episodes: 13E01
Dead Man's Shoes
Air Date: 1979-01-08
September 1940: Brian Ash, a direct entry officer of the Royal Engineers after ten weeks of basic training at the Ham...
E02
Unsung Heroes
Air Date: 1979-01-15
Ash is reprimanded, first by Francis for a newspaper story about the section that the 2IC believes injures the dignit...
E03
Just Like a Woman
Air Date: 1979-01-22
On their course, Ash and Machin learn that the boffins have developed a powerful electromagnetic 'clockstopper' to co...
E04
Cast Iron Killer
Air Date: 1979-01-29
Ash is ordered to take a defused bomb direct to a scientist working on ways to get around the booby-trap timer.
E05
The Silver Lining
Air Date: 1979-02-05
A bomb under a nightclub provides 347 Section with an opportunity for a little recreation. Ash admits that he is smit...
E06
The Quiet Weekend
Air Date: 1979-02-12
Ash and Susan go off for a quiet weekend away but Ash is recalled to deal with an unexploded bomb and Susan returns h...
E07
Digging Out
Air Date: 1979-02-19
Ash works on a bomb outside a destroyed office building while the men of 347 Section try to rescue a woman trapped in...
E08
Bad Company
Air Date: 1979-02-26
Newly-promoted Major Francis takes command of the unit and proceeds to enforce new disciplines, but his chief target ...
E09
Seventeen Seconds to Glory
Air Date: 1979-03-05
347 Section cooperates with the Royal Navy to deal with a bomb that has a 17-second fuse. Ash decides to ask Susan to...
E10
Butterfly Winter
Air Date: 1979-03-12
The Germans have been dropping a new butterfly bomb that are proving difficult to defuse. 347 Section is one of a num...
E11
Dead Letter
Air Date: 1979-03-19
Ash is assigned to Cambridge to help Dr. Gillespie with the new Y fuse, and meets Susan again.
E12
The Pier
Air Date: 1979-03-26
The Company packs up and moves to the coast where they are to clear the beaches of dozens of British mines laid in pr...
E13
With Love From Adolf
Air Date: 1979-04-02
Ash convalesces after a near-fatal accident while defusing a mine. With his mobility severely impaired, he is to be r...
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